[Mountains and lake along the Tōkaidō Road] – Vintage Print
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Mountains and lake along the Tōkaidō Road]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Mountains and lake along the Tōkaidō Road]
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Printed on page 45 of a book, this woodcut shows mountains rising above a lake, a view that marks it as one of the landscape scenes in the series of fifty-three stations along the Tōkaidō. That road linked Edo, the shogunal capital, with Kyoto, the imperial city, and travelers moved between its post towns on foot or by palanquin. Hiroshige Utagawa made the series in 1833, and its color woodblock prints, with soft gradations of ink and a close eye for weather and seasons, quickly became popular with readers and collectors well beyond Japan.
| Created / published | 1833 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : woodcut, color. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1830-1840.Woodcuts Color 1830-1840. |
| Notes | In book: Series of fifty-three stations of the Tokaido, p. 45. |
| Subjects | Mountains--Japan--1830-1840. Lakes & ponds--Japan--Tōkaidō--1830-1840. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,450 × 1,152 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217005 |
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